Brian Mulroney's Influence On The Canadian Government

Election night, 1984, brought to an end the era of Liberal domination in the House of Commons, “nearly sixteen consecutive years” (Stevie Cameron 2005, pg. 15). Brian Mulroney, leader of the progressive conservatives, since 1983, (Cameron, pg. 16) swept through the nation obtaining “50 percent of the popular vote” (Professor Lewis). This historic victory was the culmination of a nation’s exhaustion and discontentment with the then current Liberal government (Cameron, pg. 14). The Mulroney administration entered government the same way it exited historically as a direct result of the plutocratic form of governance prevalent during the Mulroney’s administration. Here was a government which had claimed it would clean up Canadian politics (Cameron, pg. 17) when in fact it concerned itself instead with acquiring money by any means possible. With the resignation of Mulroney, nearly a decade later, Canada had her first female Prime Minister, albeit, four short months later, the people of Canada would soon let forth their ire. Election night, 1993, saw the obliteration of what had become one of the most reviled governments of the twentieth century (Cameron, pg. xi). It was against this backdrop that Stevie Cameron wrote On the Take; Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years. …show more content…
xi)? To answer the aforementioned question Stevie Cameron authored the novel On the Take; Crime, Corruption and Greed in the Mulroney Years. The entirety of the novel has a single premise rather than concerning the novel with legislation passed by the Mulroney administration, she focused instead upon “corruption”, which Mulroney allowed to proliferate through his entire government. 6. She postulates that it is for this reason that Canadians tore asunder the party they had so lifted up